New in Paperback: ‘Small Fry,’ ‘The Hellfire Club’

SMALL FRY: A Memoir, by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. (Grove, $17.) In her account of growing up as the daughter of an artist and the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the author offers an eloquent meditation on being caught between her parents’ two worlds, and struggling with her father’s emotional negligence and abuse. Full of uncanny intimacy and a distinctive literary sensibility, the book was one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018.

THE HELLFIRE CLUB, by Jake Tapper. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) In his first novel, the CNN anchor tells the story of a McCarthy-era congressman with dark secrets. He’s soon confronted with the depth of Washington’s corruption, seeing where money, ambition and power intersect. A parade of notable characters make appearances: Herbert Hoover, the Nixons, Roy Cohn, President Eisenhower.

LETHAL WHITE, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $18.99.) J.K. Rowling, writing under a pseudonym, returns to her detective hero Cormoran Strike. Strike is approached by a mentally unstable young man, Billy, who believes he witnessed a crime as a child. As Strike investigates, he’s drawn into class politics, which Galbraith handles with a wry wit. Our critic Sarah Lyall called “Lethal White” “a big, stuffed-to-the-brim, complicated bouillabaisse of a book, not least because of the busy inner lives of its protagonists.”

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